It’s been one year and five months since online poker’s “Black Friday” event that changed the course of online gambling and online poker in the United States and the world, and the chips are still falling.
Today the US Department of Justice handed a second amended civil complaint against Full Tilt Poker directors Ray Bitar and Howard Lederer, claiming that the duo used the ‘illegal proceeds’ from their online poker room to make personal property purchases.
To date, here are the most recent “claims for relief” charges:
Illegal gambling
Travel Act offenses,
Bank and Wire Fraud
Wire Fraud
Promotion Money Laundering and Conspiracy
Concealment Money Laundering and Conspiracy
Bulk Money Laundering and Conspiracy
International Money Laundering and Conspiracy
Promotion Money Laundering and Conspiracy
The above is in addition to the charges relating to Full Tilt and its fraud against its players:
Promotion Money Laundering and Conspiracy
Concealment Money Laundering and Conspiracy
International Money Laundering and Conspiracy
Bulk Money Laundering and Conspiracy
Per the iGamingBusiness article titled “Amended Complaint Issued Against Lederer and Bitar”, the evidence stacked against Lederer and Bitar is staggering, and includes account numbers, referenced houses and property, and no indication that this is the end to the investigation or the charges.
A leading Swedish gaming operator and provider of online casino services, LeoVegas, has officially introduced its second brand – LiveCasino. With this platform, the company is shifting its focus to the live dealer section with the ambition is to take the leading position in the gaming market’s fastest-growing product category.
“We are proud and excited to launch LiveCasino.com on our proprietary technical platform.
Provider of inventive software solutions, Yggdrasil, has shared some big news with their countless fans all across the globe: the iconic Trolls Bridge slot game is getting its long-awaited sequel!
This feature-packed title and successor to one of the company's most successful games again boasts a set of “playful and devious characters that will help hoard giant wins.”
Familiar, But Still Different:
The Amaya Gaming Group's rise to prominence in the online gambling industry has been a pretty big story over the past few years. Starting out as a relatively small company that seemed to specialize in buying up undervalued online gambling software companies like CryptoLogic and turning them around, they really broke out in 2014 when they purchased the Rational Group in mid-2014 for a huge sum of around $5 billion.
